> if only there were a viewer designed for dealing with, oh, dvi or ps.
Unless I've missed the point entirely, why not a trivial
shell script using, say, gv? Admittedly it falls short on
the extra-credit challenge:
> the "SEE ALSO" references could be "hyperlinks"
Doug McIlroy
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:03:37 James K. Lowden wrote:
> Is anyone here aware of a troff-ish project to display man pages? I
> can name several projects, starting with info, designed to *replace*
> man pages with something better? I observe we still have man pages. I
> would be nice if we had somet
Like everyone else, I normally use nroff and man(1) to view manpages.
Sometimes I whimsically use xman or tkman.
It occurs to me that I'm using a bitmapped display on a 3,300 MHz
processor with quite a few fonts installed. I could benefit from troff
output and pretty, proportional fonts on my X
Erich,
sorry for the late reply.
> Are there chances to generate dvi, ps, pdf output with groff, using
> afmtodit or tfmtodit or so?
At least PS output works just fine; the normal steps given in the
`grops' manpage are valid, see below. groff's PDF output device
doesn't work; I suspect a bug
Deri,
gropdf uses the `*' character in the `download' file. This not
documented and I ask you to add it.
Another question is how to easily update an installed `download' file
at all. For example, if I upgrade from ghostscript version 9.00 to
9.04, many entries become invalid...
The same pro
> For grodvi, support is possible too, I think (using e.g. my gbsn
> subfonts from TeXLive, called `gbsnuXX{.pfb,.afm}', with `XX' two
> hexadecimal digits, and registering all those fonts with groff's
> `.special' request), but I haven't tested it.
I couldn't resist to implement this :-)
0. Cre
Deri,
according to the gropdf man page, Type 42 fonts are supported.
However, if I use one, I get the fatal message
foo: Font file 'bar.t42' must be an Adobe type 1 font file
Werner
